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Summary: Good refrense book
Review: I think this book answers all your needs. Questions about laws, teaching styles and relatives. Listen, I think they went into the teaching styles to in depth, to the point of killing you. But overall, it is full of little useful tips. Even a section for teens at the end.
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Summary: So You've Got an Unsupportive In-Law?
Review: Of all the homeschooling books I own (and I own alot) this is absolutely the best one for slapping down in front of an unsupportive family member (or neighbor) to prove you're doing the right thing.The authors' research is awesome. Their listing of approaches to homescholing is the MOST comprehensive that anyone has ever done. (By the way, the Amazon listing here is wrong. There are two authors, and the "Your Child" is not part of the title. Maybe this is a new edition?) Anyway, I can't say enough about how terrific this book is. You could adopt some new approach every week for your child's ENTIRE homeschool experience and still have enough options left over to keep your GRANDKIDS excited about schooling! Whether your kids are preschool age or ready for college, this book will improve your homeschooling experience. If you can't buy a copy today, do what I did: go to your local library and ask for one. It'll become so valuable you'll definitely want a copy for your home library!
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Summary: Best Book Yet
Review: Out of the 12 books I have gotten about homeschooling this one was the BEST! The layout is wonderful and it has really great ideas for getting started and remaining afloat! A wonderful resource!
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Summary: Good refrense book
Review: The most annoying thing about this book is the constant reference to two Internet sites: [one of which] is very user-unfriendly and already contains broken links, and [the other], which appears not even to exist anymore. With such a recently published book I would have expected some kind of a forwarding address or apology at the missing site; it's misleading to promise further information that can't be delivered. That said, the book does deliver a very thorough survey of various homeschool methods and teaching strategies. This thoroughness can be a little overwhelming at times, but it's up to date and is a definite improvement on older books that mention only three or four homeschooling styles. I never did figure out exactly how the "100 toughest problems" fits into all this, though; considering the format of the book (50 strategies for this, 60 approaches to that), it would have made sense to have another chapter just for those! Worth a look, but not as great as it could have been.
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Summary: Thorough but hard to use
Review: The most annoying thing about this book is the constant reference to two Internet sites: [one of which] is very user-unfriendly and already contains broken links, and [the other], which appears not even to exist anymore. With such a recently published book I would have expected some kind of a forwarding address or apology at the missing site; it's misleading to promise further information that can't be delivered. That said, the book does deliver a very thorough survey of various homeschool methods and teaching strategies. This thoroughness can be a little overwhelming at times, but it's up to date and is a definite improvement on older books that mention only three or four homeschooling styles. I never did figure out exactly how the "100 toughest problems" fits into all this, though; considering the format of the book (50 strategies for this, 60 approaches to that), it would have made sense to have another chapter just for those! Worth a look, but not as great as it could have been.
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